Re: [PATCH] pci_regs: reintroduce PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_BIRMASK

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Mon Jul 13 2015 - 11:11:47 EST


On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 12:14:10PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> This partially reverts commit 09a2c73ddfc7f173237fc7209a65b34dd5bcb5ed.
> PCI: Remove unused PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_BIRMASK definition
>
> That commit dropped a symbol from an exported header claiming "no one
> uses it". This isn't how Linux normally approaches userspace API though,
> and in fact QEMU build fails if trying to use updated headers from linux
> 3.12 and up.
>
> Sure, userspace can be fixed to use the new symbol, but the cost
> of keeping the old one around is fairly low, too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>

Ping. Can this be included upstream please?

> ---
> include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h b/include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h
> index efe3443..66644ac 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h
> @@ -319,6 +319,7 @@
> #define PCI_MSIX_PBA 8 /* Pending Bit Array offset */
> #define PCI_MSIX_PBA_BIR 0x00000007 /* BAR index */
> #define PCI_MSIX_PBA_OFFSET 0xfffffff8 /* Offset into specified BAR */
> +#define PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_BIRMASK PCI_MSIX_PBA_BIR /* deprecated */
> #define PCI_CAP_MSIX_SIZEOF 12 /* size of MSIX registers */
>
> /* MSI-X Table entry format */
> --
> MST
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